When it comes to literary characters with pop culture cache Ian Fleming’s James Bond is up there with the likes of Dracula, Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes, but Bond’s journey to the big screen wasn’t an easy one and was almost derailed by a televised version of Casino Royale featuring an American spy named Jimmy Bond,…
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Tremors: Three Decades of Graboid Fun
Back in 1990 Ron Underwood and a few of friends thought to bring back the old monster genre made popular in the 50s, the one that dealt with giant ants and the like, but even though their little movie was about subterranean worm-like creatures it didn’t quite set the box office on fire, yet it…
Popeye (1980) – Review
What do you do if you can’t get rights to the Little Orphan Annie? That was the problem facing legendary producer Robert Evans when Paramount lost the bidding war for the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Annie, but something as minor as rights issues wasn’t going to stop Evans so he called an emergency…
War of the Worlds (2005) – Review
There have been several adaptations of H.G. Wells’s seminal book of aliens from Mars invading the Earth but only three have really stood the test of time, these would be the 1938 Orson Welles radio play, the 1953 film adaptation by legendary producer George Pal and finally, the Steven Spielberg production released back in 2005,…
War of the Worlds (1953) – Review
When H.G. Wells, the grandfather of science fiction, released his serialized story of War of the Worlds he not only created one of the best examples of the genre but also a template for all the alien invasion books and movies for generations to come, and his book itself has been adapted many times from…